National Aerospace Laboratory
National Aerospace Laboratory
National Aerospace Laboratory
National Aerospace Laboratory
National Aerospace Laboratory
National Aerospace Laboratory
National Aerospace Laboratory
National Space Development Agency of Japan
NAL/NASDA HOPE Team HYFLEX Sub-Group
The Hypersonic Flight Experiment (HYFLEX) was conducted in February 1996 as Japan's first hypersonic flight of a lifting vehicle with the basic characteristics of a reentry vehicle. This paper describes details of the final design of the vehicle sub-systems, and in brief its flight plan and an analysis of the flight data.